A top engineering officer in the Quds Force, the extraterritorial arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Iran yesterday, the military says.
The IDF says the strike in Mahallat, in central Iran, killed Mahdi Vafaei, chief of engineering in the IRGC Quds Force’s Lebanon Corps.
“Throughout his 20 years as the head of the engineering branch of the corps, Vafaei advanced underground projects across Lebanon and Syria,” the military says in a statement.
The IDF says Vafaei led efforts to establish subterranean infrastructure for Hezbollah and the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, “and managed dozens of underground projects in Lebanon utilized for the storage of advanced weapons.”
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